If you are a Betty White Fans, you must be familiar with the heartbreaking feeling whenever your name is trending on Twitter.
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Friday, just a few weeks away On the television icon’s 100th birthday on January 17, that horrible fear came true.
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Comedy legend and national treasure “He died peacefully at his home in Brentwood, California,” said the agent and his friend, who confirmed his death to The Daily Beast.
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Following the news, Twitter users collectively cried because the end of 2021 gets bleaker.
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Ryan Reynolds, who co-starred with White’s 2009’s “Deadpool” and “The Proposal,” is one of your celebrity friends to pay tribute to on social media. He manages to perfectly capture what many of us feel about losing someone who brought so much joy and laughter to our lives throughout more than 80 years of his career.
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“The world looks different now. It’s great for defying expectations, ”Reynolds said of White. “He managed to get very old and, somehow, not old enough.”
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He ended his short but eloquent tweet by telling White that we will all miss him very much.
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“Now you know the secret,” he concluded.
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The world looks different now. It’s great for defying expectations. He managed to be very old and somehow not old enough. We will miss you, Betty. Now you know the secret. pic.twitter.com/uevwerjobS
– Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) December 31, 2021
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While the news of White’s death is very sad, and some of us will be eating cheesecake and a few episodes of “The Golden Girls” tonight, we don’t think White wants you to spill too much on New Years Eve. champagne by the road in his honor. She’s famous for having an alcohol-fueled friendship with actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, and she probably doesn’t want you to waste her precious potion.
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White also loves to joke around and have fun, which is why he and Reynolds have been friends for more than a decade. Watch them both in the promo video for “The Proposal.”
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White and Reynolds entertained audiences with playful flirtations for years. Two years ago, he even referred to her as one of his “ex-girlfriends” on Instagram.
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But White was able to make one last dig at Reynolds just before his death in Persons Interview posted this week: He told Reynolds that he finally needed to stop being in love with her.
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“I heard Ryan can’t get over that for me,” he joked to the magazine. “But Robert Redford is the only one.”
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Reynolds naturally had a snappy response to interviews:
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But we think this Twitter user summed up the last public fight of the two actors quite well:
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